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Lecturer vs Moderator - What's the difference?

lecturer | moderator |

As nouns the difference between lecturer and moderator

is that lecturer is a person who gives lectures, especially as a profession while moderator is moderator (mediator, chairman, web forum administrator).

lecturer

English

Noun

(wikipedia lecturer) (en noun)
  • A person who gives lectures, especially as a profession.
  • A member of a university or college below the rank of assistant professor or reader.
  • (dated) A member of the Church of England clergy whose main task was to deliver sermons (lectures ) in the afternoons and evenings.
  • moderator

    Alternative forms

    * moderatour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone who moderates
  • * Walton
  • Angling was a moderator of passions.
  • # an arbitrator or mediator
  • # the chair or president of a meeting etc.
  • the person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian Church
  • (physics) a substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission
  • a device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
  • (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
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  • (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
  • A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.